Jim Mays wrote:
Sheesh! Don’t be too greedy. With Word and Finale you have two high end programs that each work on Mac and Windows. It’s not very difficult to do the music bits in Finale and import them into Word...OK, disclaimers: I am Micro$oftaphobic, and don't do "Word", preferring Wordperfect, instead. Here's what I did last time I wanted to do something like this:
1) Prepare the text in Wordperfect
2) Prepare the music in Finale, with each "example" on a separate system
3) Figure out where I wanted the music to go, and what size I wanted it to be, and created blank spaces in the text using margin settings, and line feeds.
4) Set each system to print in its proper space, and size.
5) Printed the Wordperfect document from Wordperfect.
6) Printed the Finale document from Finale.
Yes. I know it's a lot of steps. Yes I know it's time consuming. Yes, I know the computer should be able to do all this stuff automatically. However, it's proved quite a valuable technique, as I can do almost everything i want to do with the page, and in the event I find an error, or something that's not an error, but which I want to change, anyway, in the music part, I merely have to make the changes and print a new copy, without worrying about re-exporting a graphic, and re-importing it into a Wordperfect document.
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